Hendrix College Athletics

Kim Ralston Kelley came to Hendrix from Mount Vernon-Enola High School, where she was a four-year basketball letterman, All-Conference team member and led the conference in steals. At Hendrix, she was a four-year basketball letterman and All-Conference second team selection in 1994-1995. She was named SCAC Player of the Week and received the Sears Collegiate Champions trophy in 1995-1996.

“The hours of classes, all night studying for exams and thousands of line drills in basketball helped mold me into the business woman, coach and, most importantly, the mother and wife I am today,” says Kelley, who has two children and has received project excellence awards at Acxiom Corporation. “I can’t remember every score of every game, but I can remember the defining moments in seasons where character outshined ability, where a group of young women had to put aside individual ideas and work together to become a team…and basketball taught me never to quit.

“Basketball proved my mother and father’s point that they instilled in me. There is no substitute for hard work and a positive attitude, she says. “I wouldn’t trade a moment of my Hendrix experience.”